hórreo

See also: horreo

Galician

FWOTD – 1 February 2014

Alternative forms

Como os monges s'acharon outro dia os orrios chẽos de muy bõo triigo: "How the monks found the nest day that the granaries were filled with excellent wheat". 13th century. Cantigas de Santa Maria

• hórneo, horrio, horro

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese orreo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin horreum (“storehouse; granary”), from Ancient Greek ὡρεῖον (hōreîon). Cognate with Spanish hórreo and Portuguese hôrreo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈo.re.ʊ]

Noun

hórreo m (plural hórreos)

1. a slatted granary placed on top of staddle stones, used for preserving and drying grain; corn crib
   • 2011, Robert Skyler, Fragmentos Terra: S. S. H. U. T., Palibrio, page 19

     Pediu o apoio da artillería e ó mediodía o hórreo estoupou en anacos.

     He asked for artillery support and at noon the raised granary was blasted to bits.

   Synonyms: cabaceira, cabaz, cabazo, caustra, piorno

See also

An old hórreo

• hórreo on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “orreo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “horreo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “hórreo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “hórreo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “hórreo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Spanish

A rock hórreo (2) supported by columns on a sill, in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.

Alternative forms

• orrio (dialectal, regional)

Etymology

From Old Spanish orrio, from Latin horreum, from Ancient Greek ὡρεῖον (hōreîon). The standard form in modern Spanish, with /e/ rather than /j/, appears to be the result of a latinizing modification. Compare Asturian horriu, horru and Catalan orri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoreo/ [ˈo.re.o]

Noun

hórreo m (plural hórreos)

1. granary (storehouse)
2. an isolated, rectangular, wooden or rock building supported by columns, characteristic of the northwest of the Iberian peninsula and typically used to store grain or other agricultural produce

Derived terms

• hórreo gallego

See also

• granero
• pósito
• silo
• troj

Further reading

• “hórreo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014